Section near Hardaway station (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Macon County, Alabama (32.3° N, 85.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 55.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eutaw Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• 11' thick unit below unconformity with Blufftown Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, concretionary, gray, green, argillaceous sandstone

• sand, greenish gray, fine, micaceous, with many small irregular concretionary masses in the form of nodules; one indurated bed 1' thick is 5.5' below the contact and another 1' thick is 8.5' below the contact.

Primary reference: L. W. Stephenson. 1956. Fossils from the Eutaw Formation, Chattahoochee River region, Alabama-Georgia. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 274-J:227-250 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5188: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 01.09.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp., "Gryphaea wratheri" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) wratheri
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster
"Gryphaea wratheri" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) wratheri Stephenson 1936 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea cretacea" = Flemingostrea cretacea
"Ostrea cretacea" = Flemingostrea cretacea Morton 1834 oyster